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An increase metabolism provides many benefits to help maintain continuous and permanent weight loss:
-less exercise would be needed - giving you more time
-less effort if you did exercise - no n
eed to try burning lots of calories during each session!
-less chance of weight regain later
-still enjoy some favorite foods - no need to be as strict on the diet
-less time spent preparing
low / non fat recipes and meals
-save money from not needing to buy all the expensive low fat varieties
-more chance majority of weight loss is fat rather than water
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Dangerous side-effects for rasing metabolism
-In America, some over-the-counter weight loss supplements contain thyroid extract from animals, or other substances that (supposedly) act like human t
hyroid hormones to speed up metabolism.
-Reported side-effects of these products include:
- Nervousness and tremors
- Bulging eyes
- Racing heart beat
- Diarrhea
- Excessive
sweating
- And worse!
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Increasing the metabolism is the fastest way to permanent weight loss, a lowered metabolism is very often the reason weight loss progress grinds to a sudden halt. When weight loss slows a dieter may r
educe food intake further, however progress is still slow because a net loss of protein continues to lower the metabolism.
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How does Human Metabolism Work? - Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
-This is the amount of calories needed to run all essential functions and chemical reactions while in a rested and quiet state. RMR is
the largest part of total metabolism and accounts for 65 - 75% of calories burned in a day.
-If lean weight is lost from the body through increased protein metabolism the RMR decreases. This often
happens when people go on a strict diet, the body is forced into what's known as a "negative nitrogen balance" which means more protein is lost than what is replaced due to less protein/energy intake
. This imbalance causes a gradual loss in lean weight thus lowering the RMR.
-Many dieters limit the amount of lean weight loss with some type of intense exercise in order for muscles to develop a
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The physical and chemical processes that maintain a life are called, collectively, its "metabolism." A flow of energy is required to run the metabolism of any organism, and the basic energy source for
all birds is the sun. Green plants "capture" the sun's energy in the process of photosynthesis, and birds then acquire it by eating plants or by eating other animals that eat plants. The energy is us
ed to do the work of building tissues, contracting muscles, manufacturing eggs, processing information in the brain, and powering all the other activities of a living bird
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The entire metabolic process is run by biological catalysts known as enzymes. They are long, chain-like protein molecules that are twisted into characteristic three-dimensional shapes. Enzyme molecule
s function rather like templates to hold reacting molecules together in the proper position to speed their interactions. If your enzymes lose their shape ("denature"), they stop functioning, your meta
bolism ceases, and you're dead. Birds are no different. That's why boiling kills; it denatures enzymes.
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